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The Mid-Del Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Mid-Del Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$187kEducation$68kHuman Services$56kFood & Nutrition$46kYouth Development$36kArts & Culture$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kRecreation & Sports$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k38 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION$15,000
DELAWARE HOSPICE INC$8,500
DELAWARE 4-H FOUNDATION$5,000
DELAWARE AG MUSEUM$5,000
DELAWARE RESTAURANT FOUNDATION$5,000
MILFORD SENIOR CENTER$5,000
DVFA FOUNDATION$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DE$5,000
THE CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC AND ED RIDING$4,000
ZOE MINISTRIES INC GREENWOOD$3,000
MILFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL-SANTA WORKSHOP$3,000
FREDERICA SENIOR CENTER$3,000
SURVIVOR VENTURES$2,800
READ ALOUD DELAWARE$2,500
GREATER HARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DELAMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 15%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 10%LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES OF DOVER: $1k → 11%CHEER INC: $1k → 10%CHEER INC: $1k → 10%CHEER INC: $1k → 10%CHEER INC: $500 → 10%PATHWAY TO SUCCESS: $500 → 10%CHEER INC: $500 → 10%CHEER INC: $500 → 10%CHEER INC: $500 → 10%THE CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC AND ED RIDING: $4k → 10%THE CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC AND ED RIDING: $4k → 10%CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC & EDUCATIONAL RIDING INC: $2k → 10%DELAWARE HOSPICE INC: $9k → 10%CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC & EDUCATIONAL RIDING INC: $2k → 10%MODERN MATURITY CENTER: $1k → 11%DELAWARE HOSPICE INC: $9k → 10%CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC & EDUCATIONAL RIDING INC: $2k → 10%MODERN MATURITY CENTER: $1k → 11%DELAWARE HOSPICE INC: $7k → 10%CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC & EDUCATIONAL RIDING INC: $2k → 10%DELAWARE HOSPICE INC: $7k → 10%THE CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC AND ED RIDING: $2k → 10%DELAWARE HOSPICE INC: $7k → 10%CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC & EDUCATIONAL RIDING INC: $2k → 10%DELAWARE HOSPICE INC: $7k → 10%DELAWARE HOSPICE INC: $7k → 10%DELAWARE HOSPICE INC: $7k → 10%HARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 11%HARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 11%HARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 11%CARING HEARTS HELPING HANDS: $600 → 11%CARING HEARTS HELPING HANDS: $600 → 11%CARING HEARTS HELPING HANDS: $600 → 11%HARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 11%HARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 11%CARING HEARTS HELPING HANDS: $500 → 11%CARING HEARTS HELPING HANDS: $500 → 11%HARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 11%HARRINGTON SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 11%HARRINGTON SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 11%HARRINGTON SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 11%HARRINGTON SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 11%HARRINGTON SENIOR CENTER: $750 → 11%FREDERICA SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 11%FREDERICA SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$447k · 42 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
16

Total granted

$447k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+28%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DB
    DELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +70%
  • DH
    DELAWARE HOSPICE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +1%
  • TD
    THE DELAWARE 4-H FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • MH
    MILFORD HIGH SCHOOL - SANTA'S WORKSHOP
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • FP
    FRANKFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +59%
  • SD
    SEAFORD DISTRICT LIBRARY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -11%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Delaware Center for Health Innovation Inc

The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.

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2
Generations Home Care Inc

Commitment to delivering exceptional client service to nurture independence, improve quality of life for aging and disabled, help this population with the highest level of professional home health care as an alternative to higher cost…

Health
3
Indian River Senior Center Inc

To provide social, educational, recreational, physical and emotional support and entertainment to seniors.

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4
Delaware Family Voices Inc

Delaware family voices's mission is to improve access to quality care & support for children, youth & young adults with special health care needs & disabilities, promoting family centered care

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5
The Arc of Delaware Inc

The arc of delaware promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and actively supports full inclusion and participation in the community through advocacy and services to individuals and…

Housing & Shelter
6
Delaware Agricultural Museum Association

The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and technology of delaware and the delmarva peninsula's farm life/culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the…

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7
Meals on Wheels Delaware Inc

Meals On Wheels Delaware?s MOWD mission is to raise funds, other resources, and awareness to support meal delivery programs to homebound seniors in Delaware.

Food & Nutrition
8
Delaware Advancement Corporation

To aggressively promote investment in muncie-delaware county which will result in the creation and retention of quality job opportunities and enhance the quality of life in our community.

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9
Medical Society of Delaware

To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.

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10
Delaware Performing Arts Center Inc

None

Arts & Culture
11
Delaware Center for Justice

The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.

Crime & Legal
12
Cancer Support Community Delaware

Cancer support community delaware is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community. our members are adults,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delmarva Community Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Delaware Ffa Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
27/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DE: $35,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DEDELAWARE DUCKS UNLIMITED GREENWING EVENT: $23,200 · OtherDELAWARE DUCKS UNLIMITED GREENWING EVENTMILFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $14,000 · OtherMILFORD SENIOR CENTER INCREAD-ALOUD DELAWARE INC: $13,000 · OtherREAD-ALOUD DELAWARE INCMILFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT - SANTA'S WORKSHOP: $12,000 · OtherMILFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT - SANTA'S WORKSHOPFREDERICA SPRINGS CREEK LIONS CLUB: $7,550 · OtherTHE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Other+44 more: $98,500 · Other+44 moreDELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC: $103,650 · HealthDELAWARE BREAST CANCER C…+2 more: $4,000 · HealthDELAWARE HOSPICE INC: $56,000 · Human ServicesDELAWARE HOSPICE INCCENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC & EDUCATIONA TIONAL RIDING: $17,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC …HARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENTER INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesHARVEST YEARS SENIOR CE…HARRINGTON SENIOR CENTER INC: $5,150 · Human ServicesCHEER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFREDERICA SENIOR CENTER INC: $3,500 · Human Services+6 more: $9,300 · Human Services+6 moreTHE DELAWARE 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentDelaware FFA Foundation: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNCIL INC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentDVFA FOUNDATION: $22,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureREHOBOTH ART LEAGUE INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureART WORKS FOR ALL INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE RESTAURANT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Food & NutritionDELAWARE FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$210,750Health$107,650Human Services$101,450Youth Development$28,000Public Safety & Disaster$22,000Arts & Culture$15,500Food & Nutrition$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC: $103,650 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetDELAWARE HOSPICE INC: $56,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DELAWARE 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetDVFA FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC & EDUCATIONA TIONAL RIDING: $17,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetMILFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $14,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetREAD-ALOUD DELAWARE INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER HARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIE: $7,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetREHOBOTH ART LEAGUE INC: $6,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENTER INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHARRINGTON SENIOR CENTER INC: $5,150 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHEER INC: $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE RESTAURANT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDELAWARE FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetART WORKS FOR ALL INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFREDERICA SENIOR CENTER INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCARING HEARTS HELPING HANDS INC: $2,800 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MODERN MATURITY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINDING YOUR MIND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN DELAWARE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE EFFORT TO REINFORCE TRANSITION SUCCESS INC: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware FFA Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY LTD: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEAFORD DISTRICT LIBRARY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES OF DOVER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF DELAWARE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENDER HEARTSINC: $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPATHWAYS TO SUCCESS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTICOKE SENIOR CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds DELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DELAWARE 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DVFA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC & EDUCATIONA TIONAL RIDING ↗
  • Who funds MILFORD SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIE ↗
  • Who funds CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds REHOBOTH ART LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRINGTON SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEER INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE RESTAURANT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ART WORKS FOR ALL INC ↗
  • Who funds FREDERICA SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CARING HEARTS HELPING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MODERN MATURITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DELMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MINDING YOUR MIND ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Delaware Community Fo…Longwood Foundation I…The Carl M Freeman Fo…United Way of DelawareCrestlea Foundation I…Welfare Foundation IncDel-One FoundationWsfs Cares FoundationChichester Dupont Fou…Incyte Charitable Giv…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…Palmer Home Inc
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE52.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Del-One Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Palmer Home Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mid-Del Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mid-Del Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Pathways to Success Inc: 95% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Art Works for All Inc: 56% of income from government
  • Nanticoke Senior Center Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Cheer Inc: 51% of income from government
  • The Modern Maturity Center Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Read-Aloud Delaware Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Harvest Years Senior Center Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Frederica Senior Center Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Milford Senior Center Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Harrington Senior Center Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Lutheran Senior Services of Dover Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Latin American Community Center Inc: 34% of income from government
  • The Ministry of Caring Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Seaford District Library Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Greater Harrington Historical Socie: 16% of income from government
  • Delaware Ffa Foundation: 12% of income from government
  • Frankford Public Library Ltd: 10% of income from government
  • Rehoboth Art League Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Home of the Brave Foundation: 8% of income from government
  • Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Clear Space Theatre Company: 7% of income from government
  • Children's Beach House Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Delaware Farm Bureau Foundation: 4% of income from government
  • The Delaware 4-H Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Delaware Hospice Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association in Delaware Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Mid-Del Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Mid-Del Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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